On Oct.
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Mostly canned stew and beans, but we get fresh white bread most of the time. We get all the latest songs and news. I tried it out today. Glen will be quite interested when I bring it home. If that was going to happen, it would have happened a long time ago. The front moved quickly, and main and rear signals headquarters were constantly relocated, once with such little notice that men given a pass to go to town returned to ind their unit had relocated, and themselves in a game of hide and seek.
Coburn wrote home from Holland on Nov. They have been existing on the barest of food and clothes. We saw a man digging a hole…and bringing out suitcases of clothes. Everyone hid their bicycles as the Germans took them too…. They are full of questions about Canada. They all want to know how the war is going, as few have radios because the Germans collected them all. The daughter has a girlfriend from Rotterdam living.
They treat us just like one of the family. Tomorrow night the Signals…are having a dance downtown. That night a most successful unit dance was held. Over turned out for the dance and some 70 girls from homes in the Breda area kept them occupied. Facing his third Christmas away from home, Coburn wrote on Dec. Most of us come out of the theatre feeling worse than when we went in [having to live] through the hell of it again.
On Dec. Every man…is to get seven days leave in England. I expect to be. I often wonder how much longer it will be till I can come home for good.
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Even if the war ends now, how long will it be till conditions in Europe are stable enough for us to leave? Six FWs lew around the general area, straing roads and buildings. They never attempt to put up a good ight. Tell him not to think of joining up. It might ruin recruiting if it became public. On Feb. Enemy aircraft strafed our area on 1 March… much enemy shelling and mortaring.
We have to keep in touch with our HQ and subunits by wireless and help them out when communication gets dificult. We like the job quite well as we are our own bosses and nobody bothers us. I got lost in Uedem one night with the truck….
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But I will have to wait a little longer. I think the next push will be the last, but it will no doubt be the most ferocious ight of the lot. He and all the people around have moved deeper into Germany trying to escape us. There is plenty of loose livestock. One cow comes to our truck every day to be milked. So, we have all kinds of milk to drink and Bossie is very grateful.
The ferocious ighting continued. About 20 of them, one right after the other and the noise was deafening, but we slept OK in spite of the noise. I feel rather like a boxer who has taken a bad beating. Coburn standing, third from right joined a group touring occupied Germany in More than a million Germans had surrendered.
May 10 brought 30, PoWs into our area to be guarded by our brigade.
In the weeks it took for his unit to be demobilized, Coburn toured Germany. I thought [French] cities were bad, but they were not nearly the size of Cologne. People had put pots of lowers and. We saw about 15 women to each man. All the men we did see wore parts of their uniform…many were without an arm or a leg or walked with a limp. Others make enough to live on of the black market. So went many good men. At least I know what responsibility is. To witness what those brave Canadians experienced, pick up a copy of Canada and the Second World War: he Batles online.
It was a secret he very nearly took to his grave, an Indigenous contribution to the war efort almost lost to history. Tomkins learned Cree from his parents and grandparents. He enlisted in , trained and was sent overseas where he was assigned to the 2nd Canadian Armoured Brigade. In , he received a mysterious summons to headquarters. When he arrived, the room was full of Indigenous soldiers who were put into diferent rooms, connected by telephone, and given messages to translate to and from English and Cree.
Tomkins became a Cree code talker, seconded to the American air force and charged with coding and decoding secret messages that would bale and befuddle the enemy if intercepted. Not much is known about the code talkers from Canada, who or how many they were, how their work contributed to victory.
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They were sworn to secrecy and after the war dispersed back into their communities, often remote; most never learned that they were released from that vow in Information about orders, troop movements and supply lines, bombing runs, enemy movement and other intelligence were translated into Cree at one end of the communication line, and into English at the other. The messengers had to be highly creative, for many military words—tank, bomber, machine gun—were not in the Cree lexicon. Code talkers adapted other words to their purposes: the Cree words for wild horse, ire, bee and the number 17 identiied Mustang aircraft, Spitires and B bombers.
Tomkins never divulged his secret assignment, not even to his four brothers who also served, until he was Just months before his death, he told his story in an interview with the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D. Tomkins was one of thousands of Indigenous people to answer the call after the Second World War was declared. About 3, Status Indians enlisted, including 72 women. As in the First World War, Indigenous people were divided in their support. Some argued they were exempt due to their status under the Indian Act or various treaties.
Others were inluenced by. Some were angered that Status Indians were not initially exempt from conscription.
Some just thought a war in Europe was none of their business. But others were in full support. Motivations for volunteering were also similar to those of previous generations who donned a uniform in Some, like. Tomkins, considered it a patriotic duty. Some enlisted because their fathers had served in the First World War. Five served overseas.